MISS MARY E. MARTIN, FLORAL PARK, NEW YORK. 
G ladiolus 
Flowers 
are about the most 
beautiful and useful 
of our summer flowers. 
The spikes are large, 
like a flaming torch, 
soft and delicate, and 
varied in a hundred 
hues, also marked like 
orchids. 
Cut the spikes and 
place in water when 
the two lower flowers 
first open. 
All tlie flowers wif 
open perfectly and re¬ 
main in bloom over a 
week. 
Plant Bulbs 4 inches 
deep in ordinary soil 
as soon as you can 
work the ground in 
the spring, and up till 
July 1st. 
Gladiolus Bulbs. 
Superfine American Seedlings, 
No finer selection of these grand flowers can be made than this 
mixture. Deep, rich crimsons, snow whites, soft pinks, pearly 
whites, variegated, marbled, blotched, striped and spotted. 3 for 
10c., 25c. per dozen, $1.50 per 100, by express. 
Second size, all blooming bulbs, same quality as first size. 12 
for 15c., 25 for 25c., 100 for $1. 
Yellow Mixture. These contain a good many Isaac Buchanan, 
the best of all the yellows. The shades of color run from light to 
deep yellow. 3 for 10c., 5 for 15c., 12 for 30c. 
White Mixture. My white mixture is very carefully grown and 
contains many of the best whites known. It is composed largely of 
the best named kinds. 3 for 10c., 5 for 15c., 12 for 30c. 
Scarlets. Fine for bedding or borders, very brilliant. 3 for 6c,, 
12 for 20c., $1 per 100 by express. 
T T i 1 s*i j- t fi '1 -t ■■ .* The spikes and flowers of 
f-tybnd Gladiolus Childsii. «£» this species are immense. 
x "* The flowers are very open and the colors very brilliant and 
unusual. Finest quality ; all kinds mixed. 6c. each, 3 for 15c., 
6 for 25c., 36c. per dozen. 
Grace Hastings. A mammoth Childsii; sparkling soft rose 
pink, with rosy, carmine throat. A lovely variety, one of the very 
best. 10c. each, 3 for 25c., 6 for 36c. 
“ J^ric-a-brac Collection." jt 
Curious Species and Hybrids. 
Saundersoni. Magnificent species. Sparkling crimson, 5c. each 
Dracocephalus, Dragon’s head. Old gold and bronze, 5c. “ 
Childsii. Mammoth hybrids,. 6c. “ 
Ingleside Hybrids,.10c. " 
Butterfly or Orchid,.3c. “ 
1 each of the above five beautiful and curious sorts for 20c, 
